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<p class=MsoNormal>The hypervisor-vmware-vsphere-support blueprint merged yesterday,
so Nova can now use VMware’s hypervisors on the compute nodes.  This brings
the OpenStack compute options to seven: vSphere, XenServer/Xen Cloud Platform,
Xen,  Hyper-V, KVM, QEMU, and UML.  LXC isn’t far behind, which will make
eight.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>I don’t normally go all Oscar Ceremony over a branch
merge, but this was 5000 lines of code and over 3 months of effort, so I
thought that a few thank-yous were in order:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><b>Neeraj Koul</b>, <b>Rochanglien Infimate</b>
and <b>Sateesh Chodapuneedi</b> for the code itself and for the automated QA
systems.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><b>Ravi Gururaj</b> and <b>Milind Barve</b> for project
requirements, management and sponsorship.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><b>Armando Migliaccio</b> and <b>Salvatore
Orlando</b> for extensive peer review before we brought the branch to the
community.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><b>Jay Pipes</b>, <b>Rick Harris</b> and <b>Rick
Clark</b> for the multiple review phases after that.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><b>Anne Gentle</b> for assistance with
documentation.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><b>Søren Hansen</b> for updating the Hudson
environment at short notice to get the merge completed.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><b>Thierry Carrez</b> for release management and
keeping us on track.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Ewan.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>

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